Cookie Policy

2.1 Essential (always on)

The site needs these to work, so they are always on. They keep you signed in, remember your cookie choice, and make sure you get the right version of the site.

2.2 Analytics

We use two analytics tools, Google Analytics and PostHog, to see which pages families use and where they get stuck. Google Analytics shows us totals, such as how many people visited a page. PostHog records each page view and button click under a random id, so we can see how a single visit moves through the site. If you sign in while analytics are on, we link that id to your BOWER account number and role so we can see how families and educators use their accounts. We never send PostHog your name, your email or anything about your children, and we remove private details such as invite codes and record numbers from page addresses.

In the United States and most other countries, analytics are on when you first visit. A small bar at the bottom of the page tells you, and you can turn them off there or at any time in Cookie settings.

If you seem to be visiting from the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we ask first, and analytics stay off until you click Accept. We guess where you are from your browser's time zone and your connection's country, so the guess can be wrong. If your time zone does not tell us where you are, for example UTC or GMT, we treat you the same way and ask first. You can change your choice in Cookie settings either way.

If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, a privacy signal some browsers and extensions offer, we treat it as a no. Analytics do not load, and we save that choice in this browser.

When you pay for a booking from a browser where analytics are on, our server also sends PostHog a note that the payment went through, with the booking type, class, amount and whether it was a trial, linked to your account number.

Screen recording in PostHog is off. Google's ad features, Google signals and ad personalization, are off. Analytics never run on our library pages, which children may read on their own, or in the class lists that centers show on their own websites.

Some public pages also show Google's preferred-source button, which lets you add BOWER as a preferred source in Google Search. Its script comes from Google (news.google.com) and follows the same rules as our analytics: it loads when analytics are on for you, which is by default in the United States and most other countries, and it does not load if you click Decline, if your browser sends Global Privacy Control, or, in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, until you click Accept. When it loads, Google receives the address of the page you are on, and your browser may send Google its own cookies. If analytics are off, we show only a plain link to Google's page, and nothing loads from Google unless you click it.

2.3 Our website host's visitor count

Our website host, Lovable, offers a built-in visitor count. When it is on, a small script sends our host the address of each page you view, the page you came from, your browser type and language, and a country guessed from your time zone. It sets a cookie called session-id that lasts 30 minutes. This is turned off.

2.4 Maps

Some pages show maps and location search from Mapbox. When they load, Mapbox receives your internet address and the map area you view.